Pencilnoob
@Pencilnoob@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 4 days ago:
A wedding can cost almost nothing. I found a very small local poor church and offered them $100 bucks to use the place on a Saturday. I baked a big cake, decorated it plain white. I overnight smoked a brisket, made a pan of Mac and cheese.
Got a friend to officiate, and told our friends and families a month in advance. We told everyone it was a potluck. We got $100 plain rings. My grandmother ended up buying some cool flowers for decorations. A friend played some music on the church speakers.
All in, it probably cost us $400 out of pocket, and we got enough cash from attendees to cover that and pay for us to take off work for the week to just hang out and move in together, staycation style. To be fair, I don’t think either of us would have wanted a vacation style honeymoon, we did that kind of thing later. That first week was a lot of figuring out how to live together, so that took time.
So it’s possible to have a big party with friends and family, but spend very little. Just have everyone bring some food and it’ll work out.
Studies show that folks are less likely to have a happy long term marriage the more they spend on a wedding. It’s a pretty clear correlation that expensive weddings typically make folks more unhappy and starts the relationship off with more financial stress. So, don’t feel bad about being frugal! As long as you are both happy, it can be very inexpensive.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 2 weeks ago:
I mute a ton of communities, and I really like quickly getting to the “end” of All. Then I’ve blocked some other dopamine sites, so I get bored and go play outside 🤣
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 4 weeks ago:
❤️
Indeed, I don’t need to stand out by having more unique tastes, I like what I like
- Comment on What are your Top 10 anime? 4 weeks ago:
MOST BASIC LIST EVER
- Trigun
- Spirited Away
- Dandandan
- Solo Leveling
- Cowboy Bebop
- Nausica and the Valley of the Wind
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure
- Trigun Stampede
- Bloom into You
- Comment on The PS2 turns 25 years old today. Crazy, right? Perfect day for revisiting some classics. What are some of your favourite PS2 games? 1 month ago:
KATAMARI DAMACYYYYYY BUM BUM BUM BUM
- Comment on One Piece will survive next generation too. 1 month ago:
Position 1,1 with the hand mouth is Jujutsu Kaisen
- Comment on a challenge appears 1 month ago:
They are both my creepy weakness and my allies who eat worse things
- Comment on I mean I would totally give it a try 2 months ago:
Memes that lie?! On the internet?! Someone call the Internet police
- Comment on We have all done it 2 months ago:
I always find that last fellow intentionally hilarious. Just avoiding the gaze then he’s just got a full on blindfold
- Comment on YSK that there's a better index than the BMI to measure obesity called the Body Roundness Index 5 months ago:
Here’s an online calculator
- Comment on AI Slop 6 months ago:
A Calvin and Hobbes AI meme, truly we live in times
